All organic crop rotations contain three to four years of no ploughing because grass leys use the sun's energy to fix nitrogen for subsequent crops in place of oil-based artificial fertiliser.

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Lufkin also provides a wide array of automation systems for oil and gas wells to optimize their artificial lift technologies with an ultimate objective to reduce production costs.

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For the Wolves set, the band was partially obscured by a cloud of artificial smoke, and the stage was littered with candles and oil lanterns.

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Further, by keeping an artificial lid on pump prices until recently, Indian policy encouraged these oil sector producers to look for clients overseas.

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Instead, these researchers claim, it would be both cheaper for oil companies and better for the environment if decommissioned offshore oil rigs were allowed to remain and be transformed into artificial reefs.

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He also serves sunflower oil in capsules created by a technology the Soviets used to make artificial caviar.

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Overall, the expanded artificial lift product portfolio will allow GE to continue to grow in the current changing oil and gas production market.

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Louis Michaud, a Canadian engineer who works at a large oil company, believes he has devised a way to do just that, by generating artificial whirlwinds that can be controlled and harnessed.

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